r/Protomen • u/ShaxxsExtMag • 7d ago

Discussion Vinyl master

To those that have the vinyl, have you noticed any distinct differences in the master? I just got my hands on my copy from Bandcamp, and immediately thought that the music sounds more bleak. For instance, I’m not a huge fan of The Redline, but it has a much more sinister tone that I really like. Even the ‘heroic’ songs feel more futile.

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u/ProspectorBugaboo 7d ago

Would this be in relation to the surround sound mixing they did? From memory they did work to have the sounds playing in 3D space if you have the right speaker setup (e.g: playing it in a movie theatre)

Maybe it translated oddly

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u/ShaxxsExtMag 7d ago

Wack. Definitely not playing it through a surround sound, so maybe. I’m personally really happy to hear what it sounds like analog

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u/Onslaughttitude 5d ago

Vinyl can't do surround sound, it's a stereo format. No 5.1 surround mix of Act 3 has been publicly released.

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u/ProspectorBugaboo 5d ago

Ah okay, that’s a shame. So even the FLAC and WAV formats from Bandcamp wouldn’t have it? I hope it’s one day released.

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u/Onslaughttitude 5d ago

It would be a separate format release. I don't fuck with 5.1 so I don't know what formats it releases in but typically, to my understanding, it's a DVD/blu ray.

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u/Derp_a_saurus 4d ago

Apple music has the Atmos mix. 

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u/MadManInABox1963 7d ago

I haven't opened my black vinyl, but I was waiting on the red vinyl, and then trying to decide which one actually wanna open. Some of it might just be that there's a little bit of a wider variety in the tone or potentially the extra noise from vinyl. Could add a little bit more of like an uneasy feel and not feel as antiseptic as the digital file is.

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u/ShaxxsExtMag 7d ago

Maybe a correlation between Dystopia and the sound of vinyl? With all the works in the genre written in the 70s and 80s, it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a subconscious bias towards that.